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<h2>Medical Expenses in Viet&ndash;nam (household Level) </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>a cross-section from 1997
</p>
<p><em>number of observations</em> :  5999
</p>
<p><em>observation</em> :  households
</p>
<p><em>country</em> :  Vietnam
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(VietNamH)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>sex</dt><dd><p>gender of household head (male,female)</p>
</dd>
<dt>age</dt><dd><p>age of household head</p>
</dd>
<dt>educyr</dt><dd><p> schooling year of household head</p>
</dd>
<dt>farm</dt><dd><p>farm household ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>urban</dt><dd><p>urban household ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>hhsize</dt><dd><p>  household size</p>
</dd>
<dt>lntotal</dt><dd><p>log household total expenditure</p>
</dd>
<dt>lnmed</dt><dd><p> log household medical expenditure</p>
</dd>
<dt>lnrlfood</dt><dd><p>log household food expenditure</p>
</dd>
<dt>lnexp12m</dt><dd><p>log of total household health care expenditure for 12 months</p>
</dd>
<dt>commune</dt><dd><p>commune</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Vietnam World Bank Livings Standards Survey.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>

<p>Cameron, A.C.  and  P.K.  Trivedi (2005) <em>Microeconometrics : methods and applications</em>, Cambridge, pp.88&ndash;90.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code></p>


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